On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 16:57 +0530, Ferdi wrote: > Hi List, > > I have met with little success sending mail from PHP. I have used mainly the > mail() function but have also tried imap_mail() which the documentation says > is just a wrapper around mail(). > > Here is my understanding of the situation: > On Windows (WampServer 2.0i ) I manage to send email after setting SMTP = > smtp.someserver.com. I guess this works because the server I use relays all > mail received; it does not check if the user has been registered or not. It > obviously does not bother about the password. > > On Linux (Centos 5.XX, XAMPP 1.7.2), the above function [mail()] does not > work. On Linux, what I have understood, is that the smtp server settings in > php.ini do not matter. The sendmail / mail (something like that) utility is > called which sends the mail. I have put in the correct sendmail_path setting > in php.ini, but, I guess this utility is not configured since I don't > receive the mail and running the code does not throw up errors or warnings. > > What I need to achieve is the ability to send attachments in an email from > PHP. I would like one of the following options (in order of preference): > > 1. Create an email account (specifically Google Apps Mail) and send email as > that user. This will not be trivial. I will need to get a fix on > authenticating, logging in etc. > OR > 2. Send mail using an SMTP server. Could you also point me to links showing > installation / setting up of a SMTP server on Linux? The XAMPP docs say the > Mercury mailserver is included, but I couldn't find any help for setting it > up. > OR > 3. Configuring the sendmail utility on Linux > I believe that Zend_Mail would offer help here. It it a pure PHP solution, and therefore should work on various operating systems. Some code that uses Zend_Mail for sending out mail is at git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/bibledit. See directory web/web in there. We use smtp.gmail.com as the external SMTP server, and it works well. Zend_Mail handles all authentication needed: SMTP: smtp.gmail.com, auth => login, username => YOUR_USERNAME@xxxxxxxxx, password => YOUR_PASSWORD, ssl => ssl, port => 465. Teus. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
